2013 USAID Annual Letter

ANNUAL LETTER

Cover Photo: In Nepal, we’ve worked with more than 2,200 families to improve nutrition by creating home gardens and providing three crops cycles of technical assistance. More than half of these households are female-led. (Credit: Fintrac Inc.)

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5 +3 0 %% ! 3 Every day, more than 9,600 peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;educators and engineers, procurement specialists and human resource professionalsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;arrive at work in more than 80 countries to advance one of the greatest missions in the world. Our work represents the goodwill and generosity that unite us as a people and spur us to act in times of need, as weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done in Syria and the Sahel just this past year. I have seen this spirit alive in nearly everything we do, from supporting peaceful elections in Senegal to mitigating the

To meet our mission with renewed capacity, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re building a dynamic and diverse team of technical experts and development professionals. More than 1,100 new staff have joined our Agency in the past

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us money, enabling us to perform core operations we once had to contract out.

Most important, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re increasingly working together as one community, one family, and one USAID. Many different acronyms and hiring authorities bring us here, but we all share the same determination to make this world a better place, even at our toughest moments.

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disarming smile, Ragaei volunteered for a second year in Afghanistan because he believed strongly in his work with local communities to expand economic opportunity. He died a hero, in service to our nation, the Afghan people, and our mission to advance the cause of freedom.

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In early 2011, only 20 percent of women in Iraq had mobile phones, one of the worst mobile gender gaps in the world. To help close this gap, we partnered with Iraqi mobile operator Asiacell to design a new product just for women. More than 1.8 million women have signed up, bringing the proportion of Asiacellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s female customers close to 40 percent.

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